* James Cassell (fedoraproject@cyberpear.com) wrote: > Peer does not work with TCP connections, and I haven't figured how to get,e.g., third-party Java applications working without TCP.
The entire point of peer was to segregate the very insecure 'ident' from the actually quite secure 'peer' auth, so, no, it's not going to work over TCP connections- that's more-or-less the point.
Regarding a JDBC connection, you can pass in a "socketFactory", as I understand it (though I'm no JDBC expert, I'd suggest you address issues you have with that to the JDBC list):
As the Java Language specification does not provide for UNIX socket support and no widely used JVM bundles AF_UNIX socket support there's no way for PgJDBC to directly support unix sockets. We could add support for it in jdbc:postgresql:// URLs, but we'd have to do a runtime search of the classpath to find a suitable SocketFactory using a list of known unix socket library implementations ... so why bother? If the user has to install a 3rd party library to do it anyway, they can specify a JDBC URL argument too.
So PgJDBC already has everything it needs there IMO, except perhaps a hint in the documentation. Patches welcome :)
